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for the next 8 years. I'd forgotten the name of
the farm but remembered staying in the
farmhouse while taking the camp down. Two
evenings we went into Stratford (on Avon) to
see Shakespeare's plays. We saw Anthony
Quale in "Othello" and I think the other play
was "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

IN ANSWER TO ALAN
ROSENTHAL FROM LAST

ISSUE

MIKE SCHNUR Meadow Court Farm today
Secondly, the photos of Jewish shops in East
A Market, which is decorated with photos of
London, reminded me of Covent Garden
fter some hesitation, due to Alan
Rosenthal's letter in the last Iton,
people and shops from when it was still the
I've decided to write this letter.
wholesale fruit and vegetable market (and
I hadn't got very far close to the Habonim head office then).
with reading the Thirdly, reading of going on aliyah by train
Iton (and the last to Trieste. I took this ride too, but in my case
newsletter) before the train went on through Yugoslvia (as it
memories started then was), Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey to
coming back.
Istanbul and then ship to Haifa. I may be the
First, Willie only person who "made aliyah" on the (old)
Kelman, quoting Orient Express.
from a past And I could go on with memories
movement newsletter, mentioned the last of awakened by the Itonim.
the "fatigues" team leaving Meadow Court
Farm. In 1954, whilst still a Tsofeh, was the Maybe, we can't help being nostalgic
first time I was on "Pioneer" (setting up the but.........
camp) and on "Fatigues" (taking it down at Yours, etc., Mike (Big Schnitz) Schnur
the end). I went on to do this every summer
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